Logan's Run Becomes Reality: Artist Counts Down Remaining Childbearing Years With 'Wonder Clock'

Wed, 06/20/2012 - 08:25 EDT - Forbes.com - Top Stories

When I ask Mira Kaddoura her age, she demurs. But for a woman who doesn't like numbers, she has a pretty intimate relationship with time. The -based conceptual artist is the creator of The Wonder Clock - a stark purple and black website that counts down to the end of her childbearing years in constantly ...

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We have a project we're working on behind the scenes here at Political Calculations, where we keep having to work backward in time to figure out when an average American man or woman who has reached Age 65 in a given year was born, and then forward in time to project the year to which they can reasonably expect to live if they have the same average remaining life expectancy of a man or woman who reached Age 65 in the year that they did!

We have a project we're working on behind the scenes here at Political Calculations, where we keep having to work backward in time to figure out when an average American man or woman who has reached Age 65 in a given year was born, and then forward in time to project the year to which they can reasonably expect to live if they have the same average remaining life expectancy of a man or woman who reached Age 65 in the year that they did!